Interim Senior Manager, Group Employee Communications - 18 month FTC

Legal & General is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor. We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, aiming to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone and create value for our shareholders.

Our Group Functions provide the services that all areas of the business need. This requires a talented and diverse team behind the scenes, who enable everyone at L&G to do what they do best. 

Joining us means helping to improve the lives of our customers and contributing to the success of the business every day.

We’re recruiting for a Interim Senior Manager, employee communications to join us on an 18 month FTC. Legal & General’s Corporate Affairs function brings together our Group external communications, employee communications, brand, sustainability, social media and public affairs teams. You will be responsible for leading communications for our GCOO, and leading communications programmes that support Group-wide strategic and transformation goals.

What you'll be doing:

• Defining and delivering a Group COO communications strategy that engages employees within the function, L&G’s broader COO community, and Group-wide employees – with a focus on how we’re creating a growing, simpler, better-connected L&G through our approach to operationalising L&G’s strategy
• Acting as business partner to the Group COO (a new role at L&G), providing strategic counsel and advice on how to build employee confidence in the new vision for the Group COO office, supporting transformation goals, and building trust and credibility in the function’s leadership
• Providing advice and counsel to members of our Group Management Committee, in particular Group COO, Chief People and Transformation Officer, and CFO, on engaging Group-wide colleagues on strategic initiatives designed to further L&G’s strategy and transformation objectives
• Working with the Head of Strategic and Transformation Communications, developing and delivering communications strategies that support L&G’s strategy and transformation goals across Corporate Functions to Group-wide colleagues, owning both strategy development and accountability for delivery – working with Employee Communications colleagues to deliver communications and events
• Working autonomously with a wide group of stakeholders across Corporate Functions, supporting emerging people and transformation objectives through employee communications, and adopting an agile approach to delivery
• Ensuring communications are reviewed and approved by individuals who have the appropriate knowledge, skills, and expertise, and that such approval is recorded
• Taking the lead in all matters with regard to the management of employees, ensuring that management discretion is used in a consistent manner and that the area follows the Group’s policies and procedures including the Partnership Agreement to maximise business performance

Who we're looking for:

• Significant knowledge of employee communications and change communications strategies
• Significant knowledge of developing different types of content (written, video, graphic) and designing and delivering internal events
• Excellent copywriter, knowledge of messaging development and crafting engaging narratives for employees.

• Able to work autonomously and on own initiative to propose solutions and collaborate with others to deliver to deadline
• Significant experience working with senior leaders
• Previous experience working in complex regulated organisations, ideally in FS
• Experience effectively managing relationships with external agency partners and collaborating with colleagues to deliver on plans

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer: 

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes  
• Generous pension contribution  
• Life assurance   
• Private medical insurance (permanent employees only) 
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday 
• Competitive family leave 
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice 
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online   
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.

We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.

If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.